Sgt Pepper drum fetches £540,000

[Nibb]

Sgt Pepper drum fetches £540,000


The whole collection fetched £1.5m

The drum skin used on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album has sold for £541,250 ($1m) at auction in London - almost four times the estimate.
John Lennon's lyrics for Give Peace a Chance sold for £421,250 at the rock memorabilia sale at Christie's.
The lyrics were handed to comedy writer Gail Renard at Lennon and Yoko Ono's Montreal "bed-in" in 1969.
The entire collection, which included photos never seen in public before, fetched more than £1.5m.
A pair of tinted prescription sunglasses belonging to Lennon, which the singer wore for the cover of the single Mind Games, raised £39,650 ($79,000).
Recordings of the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing at the Woburn Music Festival in July 1968 went for £48,050 ($95,000), a Marshall amplifier used by Hendrix in concert fetched £25,000 ($50,000) and a pair of his stripy flared trousers made £20,000 (49,000).
A 1967 Gibson guitar, formerly owned by Pete Townshend of the Who, sold for £32,450 ($64,000).
Memorabilia from acts including Ella Fitzgerald to Madonna were also auctioned in the sale.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7500041.stm

[Nikki]

thats alot of doller for skin